Want a good workout?
Bread.
Haul flour out of pantry. This will tone your legs as you dance around trying not to drop 2lb of flour on the cat who's wrapping itself round your ankles convinced you're in the pantry for cat food.
Hop to the fridge with the cat suspended on one foot for 300ml of milk. Add hot water to make up to a litre, and go back into the pantry for dried yeast. Detach the cat from the pantry carpet and close the door one handed, holding a struggling feline in the other hand.
Pour flour into bowl, rub in butter, add milk, water, yeast and sugar mix, and knead for 20 minutes. Your shoulders and arms will receive an excellent workout as you repeatedly peel the dough off of the worksurface, your fingers, the splashback, and the cat after it jumps up onto the sideboard trying to see what you're doing.
Realise the dough is still sticky. Knead for a further ten minutes, repeating the mantra 'the wetter the dough, the better the bread'. You will continue to tone your arms and shoulders whilst calming your mind in a meditative fashion.
Place dough in proving basket, cover with a clean teatowel, chicken-dodge out into the garden and clear a shelf in the cold frame for the bread to prove in the sun.
Spend ten minutes scrubbing now hardened dough out from under your fingernails.
Do all of this on a stinking hot day. Done? Good.
Now hang out the laundry.
Haul flour out of pantry. This will tone your legs as you dance around trying not to drop 2lb of flour on the cat who's wrapping itself round your ankles convinced you're in the pantry for cat food.
Hop to the fridge with the cat suspended on one foot for 300ml of milk. Add hot water to make up to a litre, and go back into the pantry for dried yeast. Detach the cat from the pantry carpet and close the door one handed, holding a struggling feline in the other hand.
Pour flour into bowl, rub in butter, add milk, water, yeast and sugar mix, and knead for 20 minutes. Your shoulders and arms will receive an excellent workout as you repeatedly peel the dough off of the worksurface, your fingers, the splashback, and the cat after it jumps up onto the sideboard trying to see what you're doing.
Realise the dough is still sticky. Knead for a further ten minutes, repeating the mantra 'the wetter the dough, the better the bread'. You will continue to tone your arms and shoulders whilst calming your mind in a meditative fashion.
Place dough in proving basket, cover with a clean teatowel, chicken-dodge out into the garden and clear a shelf in the cold frame for the bread to prove in the sun.
Spend ten minutes scrubbing now hardened dough out from under your fingernails.
Do all of this on a stinking hot day. Done? Good.
Now hang out the laundry.